PawNotes 🐾

Patient readers, one interesting thing about elections in our country is that you often don’t know who has won for a while. Each state determines its vote counting procedures (some of are slower than others) and some close races take a while to determine.

Here are a couple of examples. This year, we knew that Donald Trump won the race for President in the very early hours of November 6th (look for the line that shows he won Wisconsin for the moment when he hit 270 electoral votes). The results of the presidential election in the year 2000 took 35 days to be finalized (and some people still view them as controversial). And again in the year 2024, some of our house and local races are still undetermined (look for gray on the charts).